Please do tell us three things you're unable to do your phone today due to insufficient RAM.
We're waiting.
Meanwhile, Apple has been smart to not be overzealous with too much RAM headroom. Apps would suck it up like sponges and it would be no better. Having a lower headroom forces developers to optimize apps.
I’m not sure I buy this argument anymore, sounds like something leftover from the 2000’s.
Using this logic we could say that clothes manufacturers should only make size 28 waist pants for men, as it would force everyone to lose weight and fit into them.
I’m sure Apple has ways to make sure developers keep their apps optimized no matter how much ram Apple adds.
Over the ten plus years I’ve used iPhones low ram has been almost a constant issue, and every time they upped the ram was the years we say the big performance gains. The iPhone 6 series was famous for its sluggish performance and constant app/safari tab reloads due to them sticking with 1gb. When the 6S came out with
double the ram at 2gb it was a massive performance improvement. You could test this once the phones were jailbroken, the 6 was always maxed out and suffering from lag, the 6S always had ram to spare and was lightning quick in comparison.
Fast forward to recent years, and the 14 pro max was notorious for not being able to handle simple tasks such as switching to the camera app and taking a picture or a short video without all your other open apps having to reload when you went back to them. It was bad, I even lost a bunch of comments I had written up here many times if I left Safari real quick to check another app. Such a “pro” experience!
The 15 pro’s are better with 8gb, but I still get lots of app reloads after taking video which is annoying. And now with all this ai stuff incoming it looks like the 15 pro’s and the 16 pro’s will be obsolete in 54 weeks. Everyone who wants to use apples ai to its full potential will need to buy a 17 pro, and even that will only have 12gb of ram. Who knows how many years they’ll stick to that before moving to 16 as Google already has.
Nothing wrong with a little headroom, and it looks like the days of iPhones lasting 6/7/8 years are over. Do you think a 15 or 16 pro max will be usable in a few years?
Apple is just being cheap and greedy, at this point it’s safe to say that Android is faster, smoother, and less laggy than iOS. My flagship top of the line 15 pro max was throttled down to about 1 frame per second recently on a warm day, it’s actually quite pathetic honestly. I expect more from a flagship device marketed as a professional tool.